Centre, AL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m550 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Centre sits at about 600 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 180 m
most residents: 570–630 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the south side
Highest
710 ft 215 m
on the southeast side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside city limits
Centre spans about 180 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 600 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 710 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Centre | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (PYP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi southeast of the city limits | 595 ft181 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States
- Population
- 3,845 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 329 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.1520° N, 85.6789° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Coosa River → Alabama River → Mobile River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Centre Piedmont/Cherokee County Regional (PYP) 595 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 35960
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sand Rock930 ft
- Collinsville750 ft
- Spring Garden720 ft
- Piedmont700 ft
- Leesburg600 ft
- Centre600 ft
- Gaylesville590 ft
- Ballplay590 ft
- Cedar Bluff580 ft
- Hokes Bluff580 ft
- Coats Bend570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Alabama218th highest of 595
- Towns in Cherokee County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cheaha Mountain2,413 ft
- Dugger Mountain2,130 ft
- Morton Hill2,070 ft
- Round Mountain, Cherokee County890 ft
- Graveyard Hill, Cherokee County610 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.